Release Schedule

v0.4 Akihabara

• All high priority browser bugs ironed out
• Wiki pages and tutorials done
• Vanilla theme as the default with vanilla.htm to showcase all features
• Tables module finished
• Some javascript examples

v0.5 Ginza

• Overhaul of homepage look and feel
• Sparkl blog page
• Lots more javascript
• Tutorial project - Burger Shack
• Lots more layouts in the advanced layout module
• Microformats in the code
• Lots of new themes
• Skip Links module
• Forms module
• More javascript modules and documentation

Objectives

Short Term

• Complete logo design
• Add a validation link for the HTML and CSS
• Finish design of example page (tokyo.css)
• Tables module
• Business style example page (to use the table module, fixed width)
• Blog style example page (elastic width, using ems)
• Abstract some styling from tokyo.css to the modules
• Get the 'vertical rhythm' flowing better in the typography module needs checking
• Decide on a standard font and deploy it "Nimbus Sans L", helvetica, arial, sans-serif
• Links module
• Add list of books including pictures and amazon links
• Ensure browser compatibility in high priority browsers (See BrowserCompatibility)
• IE 6 fixes - separate bullet images (no png transparency) and faux columns fix(faux columns not used anymore) and current tab highlighted
• Updates and releases on google code home page
• Wiki Page - Introduction to Sparkl, goals and philosophy
• Wiki Page - How to start using Sparkl
• Wiki Page - Coding conventions, including image naming conventions
• Javascript wishlist page
• Implement Javascript core, ajax and cookies modules
• preload hover images using meta tags or use sprite images?
• Colours - get sparkly blue right and maybe use sparkly green again?
• Border should be on the bottom of tabs container, not the header
• vertical tabs module

Medium Term

• Forms module
• Code module needs more work
• Microformats module
• Tag Cloud module
• Skip Links module
• Search box module
• Block-quote module
• Print styles
• Add microformats to sites - hlisting, hcard, vcalendar, relhome etc.
• Work on a product format - http://microformats.org/wiki/product, http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/e-commerce_definition_lists.html
• Vanilla page that has no styling
• Design style example page
• Develop the wiki to include tutorials and 'The Sparkl Way'
• 6 and 8 columns for advanced-layout module
• Ensure browser compatibility in medium priority browsers (See BrowserCompatibility)
• Add microformats to the html (hcards)
• Add a list of recommended websites in tertiary content
• Develop example page to contain news and instructions
• Drop down menus (CSS or JS?)
• Rounded corners on tabs (using Douglas Bowman's sliding doors technique)

Long Term

• Styles for mobile devices
• Competition for different styled pages (like CSS Zen Garden) - started my design page!
• Simple content management system built using Ruby on Rails